A Funny Thing Happened

I reluctantly followed Ryan and Sweeet to talk to Drake. Despite the fact that Sylvia was a goddess, Drake was still probably my most powerful character. For starters, he was a dragon. In his scaly lizard form, he could probably burn down half of Ditto Town before someone stopped him. Then there was his magical abilities. He'd started out a fairly inept wizard, more Rincewind than Gandalf. I'd changed that long ago. Add in the wizard's staff that Gawain had given him and Drake was powerful enough to take on cosmic beings like Galactus or a Q. He'd once fought Mxyzptlk to a stalemate. That was why I'd stopped using him. Near all-powerful characters ruin stories.

Drake turned to face Ryan and replied," Can I help you?"

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

Sylvia returned to the main room and looked around malevolently. Matthias was wandering the stacks and Cordelia was talking to a customer. There was no one to notice Sylvia deliberately knock a mug of coffee over on the floor.

"Oh, Grump?! You missed a spot!" Sylvia yelled, struggling to hold back a snicker.

One thing very few people knew about Miss Lucinda, for all her talking and talking, was that she had desperately wanted a little girl of her very own. Crueler members of the elderly population said she had never married because she talked all her prospective love connections to death. The truth was, she'd just never met anyone she liked enough to marry, much less bring little bundles of joy into the world with. But here was this adorable little girl, in need of mothering! It was like an answered prayer, if Miss Lucinda was the type to pray. Well, she was, but not to very nice people. Certainly not the kind that sends little girls to lonely old ladies.

"Oh, I can already fly, dearie. These old books are for something else entirely," Miss Lucinda said before planting a very determined little-old-lady foot on Scrappy's dome and flipping him over with an unusual burst of strength.

"Come along, dearie," she said, offering her hand to Katie.

A Funny Thing Happened

"Um, do you . . . know where I can get books about, um, universe hopping?" I asked, trying to sound as clueless as possible (it was not hard). I did not want to appear I knew anything about the Realms bookstore, being a newcomer to Ditto Town.

I glanced over at Cordelia. "Oh and um, a place where I can get some shoes?" I hoped the stores here did not have a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy. That could be a bit difficult considering how some creatures could not fit into shoes . . . or shirts for that matter.

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

Grump whirled around, growled, and Apparated to the spot. He glared down at the very obviously recent coffee stain, then up at Sylvia.

"ARGH! Infuriating goddess of messes! Stupid woman with ugly hair! You did that on purpose!" he screeched, dancing another jig in his anger. Grabbing his large ears, he pulled on them painfully, jumping from side to side now in pain and anger.

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"Okay," Katie said with a grin, taking the old woman's hand, visibly impressed by the show of strength. "I'm called Katie Navy Blue. Wot you called?"

P.S."Brooklyn!"

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life
Chip nodded and returned his attention back to his meal. In a few minutes, he had wolfed it down and paying the tab while Nessie scraped the last morsels off her plate. A series of sonic booms suddenly shook the walls of the Cup and Platter, and most of the other buildings in Ditto Town.

"What was that?" Nessie exclaimed.

"Let's find out!" Chip replied with eyes gleaming excitedly. Grabbing his change and his jacket, he rushed out the door, Nessie hot on his heels. They made it out onto the street and looked up into the sky. Chip shielded his eyes from the sun, scanning the air for the source of the noise.

"There!" Nessie suddenly shouted and pointed above them. Chip followed her finger and spotted the three black dots soaring through the air overhead. A gleam to his right caught his eye, and he adjusted his glasses as he looked intently.

"Oh, brilliant!" he said with a grin and pointed at the five silver specks rocketing towards the black ones, leaving long white contrails in their wake.

"I think those are Autobots!" he explained to Nessie. "I see them flying around occasionally. Did you know they helped fight Enselm in 1491?..."

The five silver gleams were indeed Autobots. Each one had the form of various aircraft, ranging from a commercial airliner to single-seat fighters.

"This is Silverbolt. Targets sighted, Air Team is enroute to intercept," the lead jet radioed to Autobot city as they approached the stasis pods.

"Air Team, move into formation for magnetic net!"

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Scrappy beeped angrily then fired up his Booster rockets with a confident 'I can fly two' beep. he turned his head and floated away towards the hanger when the sonic boom messed up his circuits temporarily and dropped him to the ground "beep"

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

Aaron Ravine lurched into the Town Square, outfitted in his suit of mechanized armor. The suit was painted mostly in shades of silver and blue, except for a few unfortunate splashes of pink. Also a few sparkly sequins. Aaron's painter droid had mistaken a Bedazzler for a spray gun.

Mishaps were the story of Aaron's life. His ant mind control ray had instead turned an entire ant colony into poodle-sized mutants that had nearly wiped out the woods near Ditto Town, only being stopped by Sylvia and assorted dryads and Ents. His enlarger beam made things turn purple instead of getting bigger. His attempts to create a quick-growing grain crop resulted in carnivorous plants roaming the streets of Ditto Town for months. Now Aaron was prepared to launch his mechanized armor suit on its maiden voyage. All over Ditto Town, people were hiding under their beds.

Aaron looked up and spotted the approaching objects as the sonic booms shook Ditto Town.

"Fear not, noble Dittopians! Adamant-Man shall save you from this oncoming menace!" Aaron shouted, his voice amplified and digitally-altered by the suit. A few people brave enough to stay outside rolled their eyes. Aaron's antics were infamous in Ditto Town.

The hapless inventor fired his boot jets and took to the skies. He had reached a decent height when the jets began to misfire. He spiraled off-course and hurtled back toward the town, tumbling wildly.

Cordelia finished helping her customer and started to walk to the counter. She stopped and seemed to be listening to something.

"Anyone hear something like a rocket?" Cordelia asked, puzzled.

Sylvia was about to fire back at Grump, but a screaming Aaron smashed through the front of the store. Debris flew through the air directly at Grump. Sylvia flung herself forward, knocking the little house elf out of the way and getting hit by the debris herself.

A Funny Thing Happened

"Universe-hopping? That's an unusual subject of inquiry. Fairly dangerous too. The magic involved is quite difficult," Drake said. "Unless you're using technology. Don't think anyone around here's managed to do that yet."

"Oh, what happened to your shoes?" Cordelia asked, sounding concerned. "You must be cold. Drake, give her some shoes."

Looking like he wanted to avoid another argument, Drake waved a hand and said something suitably arcane. A pair of shoes in Ryan's size appeared from thin air

A Funny Thing
I just shrugged at hummy and then stood up and walked over to were the others were talking to Drake when the shoe's showed up out of midd air and hit me on the forhead knocking me over "Ouch!" I yelled "watch it!" I said before I remembered I was talking to an almost all powerful wizard.
Hamlein
Caden smiled "Its a long story" suddenly the memory of the piper and the children came flooding into his mind, he pushed himself up on his elbows and said "The children"
The Aftermath
((eusy we are going to ignore that last post as Ellie does not live in any other castle than the one she guards))
Matt replied "You have guard dutie from three to four and eleven to twelve" he marked off something on his papers before looking up again "Anything else" he asked.
A (Slightly) Less Normal Life
Matthew turned to walk towards the hanger when a jet sputtered out and a large crashing noise came from behind him. He groaned "Aaron!" he yelled before turning to see the damage the inventor had done this time... He hoped it wasn't more plants, seeing that it wasn't the case he walked towards the book store "Well Kale our flight has been postponed he opened the door and walked into the mess "Is everyone alright in here?"

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

Jakov looked more annoyed than fascinated as he followed Chase and Nessie outside to investigate the sonic boom. Shielding his eyes with one hand, he peered up into the sky.

"Interesting," he said mildly. "I wonder what it is they are trying to intercept."

"It could be some valuable cargo," one of the beefy bodyguards said with a greedy light in his eyes.

Jakov's lips twitched. "Could be," he said. "Perhaps we should investigate."

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Katie almost fell over herself when the sonic boom occurred, only staying upright because she was holding on to Miss Lucinda's hand.

"Holy boomin' noises!" she cried. "That was loud, wot?"

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Grump pulled harder at his ears when he saw one of his co-employers being hit by debris. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" he cried, wincing at the pain in his head from all the pulling. "You are the stupidest woman I have ever met!" He rolled around on the floor for a moment before finding his feet and standing.

"Look at this mess!" he screeched. "And there's blood! Do you know how much blood stains?!?!"

A Funny Thing Happened

I snatched the shoes quickly before they could do any more damage. They were no type of shoes I was familiar with, but they were shoes and so I put them on quickly. My feet had not been cold per se, but it had been darn uncomfortable.

"So um, universe-hopping. It's kind of a delicate matter. You see . . . we" here I gestured to myself and the fellow RPers "are not . . . from around here." I gave him a pointed look while I tried to be as vague as possible. I really hoped we could get this matter settled without anyone finding out we were, in fact, the authors of certain characters. Including one very bad character who was about to be unleashed on Ditto Town if I could not stop it.

P.S."Brooklyn!"

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Yo! Grumpy!" yelled Kale as she followed behind Matthew "If someone's hurt back there you better tell us were you are!" she said. Matthew began pulling at a large beam "Ah heck with it" he said and lifted it with the force revealing an unconscious Aaron "Get him out of here" Kale pulled him out of the store. Matthew walked under the beam then let in crash back in the rubble. "Grump shut up the goddess just saved your blimey life and I'm not sure why" he knelt beside her "You okay?" he asked.

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

The flying Autobots caught up with the descending stasis pods and positioned themselves around them. Their engines screamed at maximum power as they did their best to match the speed of the pods.

"Deploy magnetic bonds!" Silverbolt ordered. From the sides of each jet, a semi-transparent beam of energy lanced out, intersecting with the beams fired by their wingmates to form a net of sorts that wrapped around the trio of pods. The net held firm, and the Autobots began to slow their descent and pull up in slow, well-synchronized movements, diverting the course of the pods so they wouldn't crash into the middle of Ditto Town.

"Alright, they're clear," Silverbolt said after several tense minutes into the operation. "Release the net on my mark.... Mark!" The squadron complied, and the pods were released. The Autobot jets banked away and allowed the pods to land. It wasn't long before they crash-landed on the far side of the Ditto Town forest, kicking up huge clouds of dirt and debris and knocking over a good many trees. After gouging rather large swathes of destruction into the landscape, the stasis pods finally came to a halt, several dozen meters apart.

Silverbolt and the Air Team transformed into their respective robot modes and landed near the crash site.

"Silverbolt to Autobot City. Planetfall successful at coordinates Delta-4-Omicron. No permanent damage done, no one hurt. Orders?"

<Stay with 'em,> Warpath replied. <Ground support is in enroute. Keep any looky-loo's away till we figure out what those things are.>

"If I may," Silverbolt said quickly before Warpath terminated the signal, "These things are definitely Cybertronian. They have an insignia on them, but I don't recognize the faction."

<What's it look like?>

"Well... kind of like a feline face," Silverbolt replied.

<Weird. I'll be there in 150 astroseconds. Hang tight. Warpath out.>

A Funny Thing Happened

"Oh, I see. You're from out of town. I can help with that, if you can tell me where exactly you're from. I dabble a bit in universe-hopping," Drake replied.

A (Slightly) Less Normal Life

Cordelia had barely had enough time to protect herself and the customer next to her. She threw up a bubble of solidified air to protect the two of them. A few beams and fragments of wall smashed into the shield, but Cordelia was able to hold it up.

Matthias had gone down hard when Aaron's armored form crashed through the front of the store. As he climbed to his feet, he frowned down at a ragged hole torn through his chest.

"That's really annoying," Matthias commented and concentrated on regenerating the building. Random pieces of the building flew up into the air and replaced themselves.

Sylvia got to her feet a bit unsteadily and said,"I'm fine. Just a little shaken up. My essence is a bit bruised from that shrapnel."

Aaron staggered to his feet, the armor clanking loudly. He was banged up and bruised, but basically fine. The suit had absorbed the impact, protecting him from harm. Aaron almost stepped on Cordelia's shield and staggered off to the side trying to avoid it. This led to him tripping and falling through an undamaged section of the wall. The armor wasn't enormously heavy, but it was heavy enough that Aaron's impact smashed him right through the wall.

"Sorry, I'm so, so sorry. No clue what happened. The thrusters seem to be misfiring again," Aaron said apologetically, his suit distorting his voice until he sounded like he'd just inhaled helium.

A Funny Thing Happened

"Um..." I started, but then shut my mouth. I had a very bad habit of interrupting when other people were explaining something. The habit quite often got me into trouble, and I did not care for that to happen now.

The Aftermath
(thanks for startin' it up again Joe :])
"Not right now." Ellie replied. But instead of moving towards the door she stood where she was, which made Matt look up. "I saw John a few evenings ago." She shrugged, barely noticeable to almost anyone but Matt. He noticed, and gave her a curious look. She'd decided she'd try to get her question out one way or another. "How has he been?" she asked.

The Aftermath

Molly could overhear Ellie talking with some guy (where are they?) She decided to join in the conversation simply because she was bored and had nothing else to do. "Hey." She truend to teh guy, "What, may I ask is your name?"

((Eusy... Next time before you post you should read up on our last posts... Matt and Ellie are in his private office... untill you edit we'll just ignore that post two, sorry about the long wait))
The Aftermath
"Oh, Johns been fine, the kings doing well too, for his old age" a man walked in the room and handed Matt a report from last night "Thank you" he said then motioned for the man to exit.

Hamelin

Annika gulped, grabbed Caden's arm, and pulled him up. "What are you doing here?" she asked him, looking from him to the pipe recently pulled up and back.